Spessartite in pegmatite at mount antero, colorado

Although more than a dozen papers have appeared since 1887 on the minerals of the Mount Antero region in the Sawatch Range, Colorado, garnet has been mentioned only once.¹ No description of it was published, and it was not included in the most recent article² on the locality. After the writer had returned from a nine days’ study of the region in July, 1938, two members of his party, Mr. Chester R. Howard and Mr. Jerome Hurianek, found there some attractive garnet crystals. Most of them came from a pegmatite among the steep cliffs about a thousand feet north of the trail, and the same distance above it, in the canyon of Little Browns Creek, which separates Mount Antero from Mount White.